Improved curtain-fixture



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NJETERS, FMOTULITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES EDWARD MENTZ, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRovED CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,384, dated May 1, 1866.

l structiug a head for widow-shades having an ornamental appearance, and alsoin an arrangement of rollers, pulleys, and cord for operating the same.

To enable others skilled iu the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure l is a general elevation. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section. Fig. 3 is au vedge view of one side bracket. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same bracket.l

Similar letters in each refer to the same parts.

Bl is the roller on which the shade A is wound up. It is constructed in two halves, b and b2, which are screwed togetherA by the screw O-after the insertion otl the edge of the shade between them. Thisgholds the shade more securely than whenit is nailed on the roller.

Pulleys D and Dl are driven one on each end of roller B. These pulleys run on pins E inserted through the brackets G G2. These brackets G G2 are screwed to the windowjainb H, and carry a cross-piece, Land two ornamental side pieces,.K. The cross-piece carries three pulleys, m m n, and the brackets G G2 carry pulleys pp. One of these brackets is cut away, as at It, Fig. 4, to admit the roller B without taking down the bracket.

A spring, S, presses on pulleys D and keeps the cord t from leaving the pulley, and also prevents the shade from falling. Two pulleys,

m m', are placed in the window-sill V, round which the cord tis led. The cord t passes once round the pulley p, on the right hand of Fig. 2, ou the inside of pulleyr D', and once round it, then over pulley m, then once round pulley u, then over pulley m on the left-hand side, down the outside of pulley D, and once round it, then once round pulley p, then round pulleys m m', and the two ends of the cord are tied together, forming a continuous belt. Instead of the cord being continued under the pulleys m' it may be terminated in two tassels, W, Fig. 1, the weight of which is sufcient to prevent the shade running down. The friction of the various small pulleys also helps to keep the shade from falling, so that it always remains in the position where left.

To raise the shadeit is necessary to pull down the cord on one side, (in Fig. 2 the left side,) and to lower it pull down the cord on the other side in the direction of' arrows x. Vhen the cord runs underneath, as in Fig. 2, the cord t .can be pulled up or down, and the shade can be moved either way with the cord on each side. The shade can also be pulled down by the tassel Y. By this plan the cord t always remains tight enough on vpulleys D to prevent any slipping of it.

I do not claim a roller in which the curtain is secured by a center shaft driven through a centrally-divided roller; but

I claiml. The bracket G, having in it the recess R and pulley p, arranged substantially as described. v

2. The centrally-divided roller B, secured upon the shade A by screws C, in combination with the end pulleys D D', substantially as described.

3. Operating a widow-shade by a cord, t, passing rfund pulley D on one side, over pulleys m min the head, and down the other side round pulley D, substantially as described.

EDWARD MENTZ.

Witnesses:

EDWARD BROWN, STANLEY G. HYLTON. 

